[30532] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: spammers will move offshore?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Thu Aug 10 16:27:56 2000
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:26:08 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@mail-abuse.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On 08/10/00, "Derek J. Balling" <dredd@megacity.org> wrote:
> But what if you don't KNOW that they're doing something illegal?
> e.g., you hire Joe's Marketing Company, and without your knowledge
> Joe's Mktg Co spams people. I'm no lawyer, but it seems silly that
> you'd be liable for stuff you weren't even aware of (or perhaps that
> you had told them not to do but they did anyway, who knows).
I am also not a lawyer, but I'd think that turning around and
immediately suing the marketing company that's ruining your
good name will probably go a long way in convincing your ISP
and/or any legal authorities that you didn't approve of the
spamming.
Remember, laws are not a set of if/then statements.
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